Spiegel im Spiegel is a piece of music written by Arvo Pärt in 1978, just prior to his departure from Estonia. The piece is in the tintinnabular style of composition, wherein a melodic voice (which operates over diatonic scales) and tintinnabular voice (which operate within a tonic triad) accompany each other. Arvo Pärt photographed by Tonu Tormis Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer, often identified with the school of minimalism. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Tintinnabuli (from Latin ‘bells’) is a compositional style created by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. ... In music, a scale is an ascending or descending series of notes or pitches, as opposed to a series of intervals, which is a musical mode. ...

The piece was originally written for a single piano and violin - though the violin has often been replaced with either a cello or a viola. Versions also exist for clarinet and horn. The piece is musically minimal, yet produces a serene tranquility. A grand piano, with the lid up. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ... The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is a string instrument played with a bow which serves as the middle voice of the violin family, between the upper lines played by the violin and the lower lines played by the cello and double bass. ... Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™­ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ... Minimalist music is a genre of experimental music named in the 1960s which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation (no...

The piece is in F major in 6/4 time, with the piano playing rising crotchet triads and the second instrument playing slow scales, alternately rising and falling, of increasing length, which all end on the note A (The mediant of F). The piano's left hand also plays notes, syncopated with the violin (or other instrument). In music, a quarter note (American) or crotchet is a note played for one-quarter the duration of a whole note, hence the name. ... For mediant in mathematics, see Mediant (mathematics) In music, the mediant is the third degree of the diatonic scale. ...

"Spiegel im Spiegel" in German means "Mirror in the Mirror." This is referring to the visual effect of looking into a mirror with a parallel facing mirror behind the looker. The effect produced is an infinite regress of images or a "hall of mirrors". A mirror is a surface with good specular reflection that is smooth enough to form an image. ... An infinite regress is a series of propositions arises if the truth of proposition P1 requires the support of proposition P2, and for any proposition in the series Pn, the truth of Pn requires the support of the truth of Pn+1. ... For the room of this name there, see the item in the article Palace of Versailles. ...

The piece was used repeatedly, and quite prominently, in the HBO television movie Wit (2001). It was also featured in the Guy Ritchie film Swept Away (2002), the Gus Van Sant film Gerry (2002), the film Heaven (2002), the film Dear Frankie (2004), the short film Dans le noir du temps (2003) by Jean-Luc Godard, and the film Mother Night (1996) and The Truman show. HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... Wit is a 2001 HBO television movie based on the play Wit, and starring Emma Thompson as Vivian Bearing, a woman suffering through ovarian cancer and her attempt at keeping a calm position through all the problems she goes through. ... Guy Ritchie 2001 Guy Ritchie (born September 10, 1968) is an English film director. ... Swept Away is a 2002 romantic comedy film. ... Gus Van Sant Gus Van Sant Jr. ... Spoiler warning: Gerry is a 2002 film directed by Gus Van Sant starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. ... Heaven is a 2002 motion picture that tells the story of an English woman, Phillipa, a English teacher in Turin, Italy who attempts to avenge the deaths of her husband and numorous friends and students from overdoses by staging a bomb attack on a supposed drug lord/businessman but inadvertantly... Dear Frankie is a 2004 film directed by Shona Auerbach. ... Mother Night is a 1996 film based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut of the same name. ...